Simulation of ultrasonic focus aberration and correction through human tissue

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1166-1176

  Tabei, Makoto ^a   Mast, T Douglas ^b,c   Waag, Robert C ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETHICON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TISSUE;

ULTRASONIC FOCUSING;

ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BREAST; GEOMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMEN; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0037327109     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1531986     Document Type: Article

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